This week’s #WOTW and #R2BC

Gosh, I need some positivity today, it’s been a roller coaster week. I’m usually a “glass half full” gal but the fact that T’s football team – despite our sterling efforts – will more than likely disband and that D has been very badly let down by our local pharmacy and we feel that they have been so negligent that we have filed a complaint to the Pharmacy Regulator, it’s been quite a few days.

And…..Hubbie elected to bring me home a Costa (massimo decaf skinny) mocha today and ….they’re closed for refurbishment.   Great timing or what?!? I know that is minor compared to everything else but it could have been the proverbial straw that broke my (or it is a camel? I could never get that one right) back.

Onwards though!  My word for this week is:

  
And, thinking cheerfully, here’s why:

1.   It’s that time of the summer holidays when I start to think “back to school”, in terms of uniform.  I could have sorted this earlier (someone I know did hers in June), but I’m glad I didn’t because T has had an almighty growth spurt this summer!  Height, girth, feet, everything!

D is far easier to prepare for, because she doesn’t wear uniform.   She will just need some new trainers, with Velcro.

I’m sure the month or so leading up to the holidays didn’t whizz by this fast!

2.  D and I had another girlie shopping trip this week, which was really nice.  We didn’t see a vintage Rolls in the bank this time but town seemed slightly less busy and she coped better this week.

We had our “ooohs and coos” at various glittery, sparkly things and she was great fun to be with.

We’re five miles away from town and the Reading festival so it will get markedly busier by the end of the month and the bank holiday weekend.  A time when the stores focus seems to switch to bread, beers and wellie boots and there are festival goers everywhere and tons of extra security around the shops.   It brings in revenue for the town and surrounding area but makes it somewhere to avoid, unless absolutely necessary.

3.  I do have a “thing” for Phase Eight dresses, especially ones in their signature tapework style.   They are waaaaaaay out of my budget but I discovered this week that there’s quite a market on eBay.   It seems a bit sad that people seem to buy a lovely outfit for a special occasion (wedding etc, if it was me, I’d want to keep it) and then eBay it afterwards, but it means that there’s some lovely items around.

This was a bargain!

  
It’s fantastic on (me on the right) and was probably about a 10th of original price.  Arrived nice and quickly too.  

A happy end to a really quite challenging week, how’s yours been? 

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